The Fabergé Museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia, is a privately-owned museum which was established by Viktor Vekselberg and his Link of Times foundation in order to repatriate lost cultural valuables to Russia.[1] The museum is located in the center of Saint Petersburg at Shuvalov Palace (21, Fontanka River Embankment) on the Fontanka River.[2] The museum's collection contains more than 4,000 works of decorative applied and fine arts, including gold and silver items, paintings, porcelain and ...

The Fabergé Museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia, is a privately-owned museum which was established by Viktor Vekselberg and his Link of Times foundation in order to repatriate lost cultural valuables to Russia.The Fabergé Museum's collection has nine Imperial Easter eggs that were made to the order of the last two Romanov Tsars — the Emperors Alexander III and Nicolas II. The eggs were bought by Vekselberg in 2004 from the family of the American newspaper magnate Malcolm Forbes. He purchased them just before they came up for auction, paying $100 million for the Forbes family's entire Fabergé collection.

Peter Carl Gustavovich Fabergé (18 [30] May, 1846, St. Petersburg — 24 September, 1920, Lausanne) was a famous jeweler. He was the head of his family's business and dynasty of jewelry artists. He was the creator of the Fabergé eggs, which are highly regarded by collectioners around the world.

A Fabergé flower study valued at an estimated £1 million ($1.27 million) has joined the pantheon of the most expensive items ever appraised by Antiques Roadshow.“We've had one of the most significant jewelry finds in 40 years of Antiques Roadshow history,” Simon Shaw, executive producer of the long-running BBC series, told the Daily Mail.

The flower is about four inches tall, and has been incorrectly described by other news sources as a brooch. Jewelry expert Geoffry Munn, who appraised the rare piece, even went so far as to say the bauble could fetch £1.2–1.4 million ($1.5–1.78 million) at auction.There are only 80 known surviving examples of fruit and flower studies by Fabergé, which are typically presented in a rock crystal vase that appears to be filled with water. According to Christie's, they rarely come to market.

The flower is similar to a gold, nephrite, enamel, and rose diamond Fabergé sculpture in the Royal Collection Trust named Japonica that was designed by Henrik Emanuel in about 1900. The piece was given to Queen Alexandra by Stanislaw Poklewski-Koziell—”perhaps the most prolific present giver the world has ever seen,” according to the collection website—who purchased it at Faberge's London branch in October 1907 for just £52 and 5 shillings. Fabergé, Japonica (circa 1900). Courtesy of Royal Collection Trust.